Stockholm Kungliga biblioteket Cod. Holm. D 4

Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

OldSwedish1

Location

Stockholm, Kungliga biblioteket

Siglum / Shelfmark

Cod. Holm. D 4

Page / Folio range

k xxv-l xiij / 245r-263r

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Sju vise mästare

Incipit or textual title

Aff the siw mæstare

Version (siglum)

A (Seven Sages)

Language Group within Version

Old Swedish Version A

Further scholarly subgroup (2)

Redaction A

Translated / adapted from (Version/Text)

Uppsala University Library Cod. Ups. C 7

Source for textual relationship

Klemming (1887-1889), Bampi (2007), Bampi (2014)

Digitisation & Editions

Modern Editions

Klemming, Sju vise mästare (1887-1889)

Note

incomplete: "the beginning of the frame story is wanting" (Bampi 2007, p. 19)
the stories are introduced by the phrase "oc ther mz byrjadhe han/hon sit äwintyr", the latter as a translation of lat. exemplum and fabula (see Bampi 2014, p. 251)

Authorship & Production

Place of Production

Scriptorium of Vadstena Abbey, Östergötland, Sweden

Date of Production

1400 - 1450

Source of Date of Production

Bampi (2014)

Physical Description

Material

Paper

Height

"-110" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 105.105-110

Width

"-300" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 295.295-300

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

- various very different texts (secular and religious) in Old Swedish, Latin, Middle Low German

examples being:

the three Eufemiavisor
a translation of two branches of Karlamagnús saga (Karl Magnus)
Konung Alexander
psalms and prayers
texts used for practical reasons such as The Farmer's Almanac, veterinary notes for cattle, a tract on digestion, a tract on urinoscopy

textual environment of the Sju vise mästare:

231r-232v: Aff Gudz tilkwaemd och hans fødhilse

232v-234v: De obitu beate marie virginis gloriose

234v-235r: De transito beate marie virginis gloriose

235r-235v: De quindecim signis ante diem judicij

235v-236v: Speculum misse

236v-238v: De ligno domini

239r-244v: De lucidario

245r-263r: Aff the siw mæstare

263r-267r: Hær sigx aff huru siælin oc kroppin thrætto

267r-271v: Hær byrias aff ridder sancte yrian

271-294v: Hær byrias siw sacramenta

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

Modern Research Literature

Klemming (1887-1889), Bampi (2007), Bampi (2014)

Research Material

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